Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Biden DHS sued over documents showing "border crisis" intentional.

- Interesting: the history of the Ping Eye 2 (HT Dan)

- A Bill Belichick story worth sharing.

- The cheapest places to live in the world in 2024.

Word for Today

Via

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Dan Carlin on UFO's - can we handle the truth? As an aside "Contact with Non-Human Entities" would be a good name for a fetish dating site.

- Found my spirit animal

- Travel and Leisure's Top Place to Go in 2023. (HT Tim Ferriss)

- Sean Peyton is not holding anything back on how bad the 2022 Broncos were. This is just putting more pressure on him to succeed.

Travel Tips from a Digital Nomad

Vitalik Buterin (one of the co-founders of Ethereum) is a digital nomad who has flown just under 1 million miles over the past nine years.  He recently put together an interesting post on some of the travel tips he recommends to friends. 

Some good suggestions and perspective. 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Sex Tapes, Hush Money, and Hollywood's Economy of Secrets. Not interested in Hollywood gossip or sleaze but Hollywood "fixers" do hold a certain fascination for me.

- Interesting perspective on Bitcoin. (HT Newmark's Door)

- 12 hidden gems to visit (west of the Mississippi). (HT Newmark's Door)

- Cuban propaganda during the Communist revolution.

Linky Links

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- 10 incredible travel experiences according to Lonely Planet

- Read and sign the Great Barrington Declaration. They call it Focused Protection - I call it common sense.

- Amazon thoroughly wrecks narrative about lockdowns being necessary.

- Steven Pressfield: The Unlived Life

- Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works for the Environment. Amen!

- Interesting history of the shirt loop

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Heh Heh - the Aristocrats Democrats

- How to find the cheapest flight possible, every time

- Can people sense Earth's magnetic field? I kept waiting for two words in the article "Quantum Biology" but they never came

- If you follow the Boston Bruins this is pretty funny.

- Good for him! Still waiting for my first hole in one.

- I would so watch this sporting event. Come on ESPN - give the people what they want.

Key West and the Patriots Game

Last weekend I went to Key West for a couple of days before going up to Fort Lauderdale on Monday to watch the Patriots play the Dolphins on Monday night. This was my first visit to Key West and it was all thanks to my great girlfriend Sue who was also my traveling companion and drinking buddy.

As a first time visitor I had the initial "Hey look a rooster!" reaction slowly morph to "What's the deal with all these freakin' roosters". I was also overly impressed with the idea of golf carts with turn signals being a major transportation mode.

For whatever reason I made a list of the bars visited and I'm posting that itinerary here for posterity (and because I have a shitty memory). Anyways...

Saturday:

- El Siboney which while mainly a Cuban lunch/dinner restaurant (pretty good food at very reasonable prices) is on the list because it was where we partook in our first drinks of the day.
- Salty Angler - our first "bar" bar of the day. Stopped in to get out of the rain (a brief afternoon shower) and to grab a quick drinkie. Liked it so much it was also our last stop of the night too.
- Cowboy Bills - a bar/gentleman's club/country music joint. Memorable for having PBR on tap and for a drunk flat-chested woman taking off her shirt to ride the mechanical bull.
- Viva Saloon - stopped here to catch more of the Army-Navy game
- Irish Kevin's - place gave vibe of wanting to be a tourist attraction like Sloppy Joe's without you-know being Sloppy Joe's. There's an actual Irish Kevin who neither Sue nor I found amusing.
- Sloppy Joe's - being a big Hemingway fan this place was on my bucket list.
- Aqua's - stopped here because Sue wanted to watch the drag show. When in Rome...
- Jack Flats - nice sports bar with all the games on. Stopped here to watch some of the Bruins game before going back to the Salty Angler for my "just one more drink honey" nightcap.

Sunday:
- Blue Macaw - our lunch respite from bike riding. "Famous" for their Bloody Mary bar but neither of us actually like Bloody Mary's (feel free to judge me). Enjoyed our lunch here.
- Captain Tony's - the site of the original Sloppy Joe's.
- Island Dogs - nice clean place with a very clean bathroom (which was something I was looking for at this point of the day if you know what I'm saying).
- Gas Monkey - don't remember much about this place except having the Beastie Boys song Brass Monkey stuck in my head the whole time I was drinking there.
- Flying Monkey - frozen drinks a specialty so I had a frozen mudslide.
- Bobby's Monkey Bar - an off the beaten path place. More of a locals bar with $2.50 Bud Light bottles and a pool table. If I were in Key West for a long period of time this would be my go-to hangout.
- Sandbar Sports Bar - stopped here to watch the first half of the Steelers/Ravens game and to have dinner. Good sports bar next to Sloppy Joe's.
- Jack Flats (again) to watch more of the Steelers game
- Bogarts - to watch the end of the Steelers game and play a couple more games of pool. Bartender was a nice girl from Shrewsbury Mass.

That was a long, fun weekend of drinking. Tomorrow I will discuss the Pat's Monday night loss to the Dolphins along with the rest of my NFL thoughts.

Enjoy!

Travel

I would really like to stay at the Hapuku Lodge and Tree Houses in New Zealand.

If I had to stay in this hemisphere then I'd like to stay at this 727-themed hotel in Costa Rica.

Am I somehow subconsciously upset that I did not have a tree house as a kid? Either way - I'd love to stay at either place.